I love movie posters, especially the typography on many of the older ones. So, imagine my delight to discover the Harry Ransom Center’s digital collection of movie posters. The wealth of graphic design imagination here is impressive. You can read more about the collection here: http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2018/01/18/decades-of-movie-poster-history-goes-online/ Like all ContentDM collections, I find the searching kind of […]
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Movies at Random: The Wildcat
Today’s random movie is Ernst Lubitsch’s The Wildcat (HU DVD 2900). This 1921 silent romantic comedy film was restored in 2000, and our copy features music by Marco Dalphane. Here’s our summary: The commander of a remote fort (and his lovely daughter) eagerly awaits a new lieutenant. En route, he is captured by outlaws who […]
Continue readingBefore We Vanish
I’m kind of curious to see Before We Vanish, but it looks like it’s not out in DC yet. Film Comment had an intriguing article about it though. Here’s the trailer: And we do have Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata (HU DVD 6809) here in Media Services, if you’re curious.
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…Hair Dryers!
Happy Friday! Today we’re looking at Five Films Featuring…Hair Dryers! Why? I have no idea. But this one came out kind of interesting! I decided that beauty salons were cheating, so this one was really hard. 1. What Women Want (HU DVD 5279) Mel Gibson’s path to enlightenment involves water and a hair dryer. 2. […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions: January 2018
Let’s take a look at every home use DVD that crossed my desk in January! Some highlights include The Big Sick, a ridiculous number of seasons of Cheers, Season 1 of my favorite tv show to watch in hotel rooms, The Rifleman, and Quatermass and the Pit, a scifi serial. I have not seen The […]
Continue readingArt of the Title does Star Trek Discovery!!!
I’m not the most devoted Star Trek fan in the world, though I will admit to taking down Voyager episodes like handfuls of movie theater popcorn. (Side note, I totally contest this study. I am the worlds most introverted introvert and I eat my popcorn by shoving full fistfuls into my face, with many casualties […]
Continue readingMovies at Random: Night of the Shooting Stars
Today while perusing the dusty gemtrac, the movie Night of the Shooting Stars (HU DVD 5167) jumped out at me. The original title, La Notte de San Lorenzo, refers to the feast day of Saint Lawrence, a holiday associated with shooting stars. Here’s our summary: It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…Cakes!
Happy Friday! It’s time for Five Films Featuring…CAKES! Originally I had wanted to do cupcakes, but holy cow it is hard to find cupcakes in movies. But, for our first pick: 1. Bridesmaids (HU DVD 9104) The saddest, loneliest, prettiest cupcake in the world. 2. Singing in the Rain (HU DVD 674) Not a real […]
Continue readingCan He Ever Be a Better Man?
This week we got in a really interesting documentary called A Better Man (DVD 14907) directed by a domestic abuse counselor who was herself a victim, Attiya Khan. It’s not Home Use, but I’m still really curious about it because the way it was made sounds so interesting. In the film, Khan and her abuser, […]
Continue readingScotch Cinema
I was doing some super serious research for work and came across this blog: Scotch Cinema. Which is pretty much what that name implies. Not much to say about Scotchka (see The Room, but actually don’t see it please), but lots of interesting shots of the drinks of choice in various tv shows and movies. […]
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